A sweet savour. — Hebrew, a smell of satisfaction. The idea is not so much that the sacrifice gave God pleasure as that i…

And God spake unto Noah, saying, Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons' wives with thee. Bring forth with thee ev…

And the Lord smelled a sweet savor. Moses calls that by which God was appeased an odor of rest, as if he were saying the sacrifice had bee…

And the Lord smelled a sweet savour
Or a "savour of rest" ^F5 ; he was delighted and well pleased with his…

Noah had now gone out into a desolate world, where, one might have thought, his first care would have been to build a house for himself, but he beg…